John Allen Chalk

John Allen Chalk


Whitaker Chalk Swindle & Schwartz PLLC

Recognized since 2017

Fort Worth, Texas

Practice Areas

Arbitration

Mediation

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Chalk is a 1973 graduate of University of Texas School of Law (J.D.), with prior M.A. (1967) and B.S. (1962) degrees from Tennessee Tech University, and A.A. degree (1956) from Freed-Hardeman College. Prior to joining in 1986 Whitaker Chalk Swindle & Schwartz PLLC, Fort Worth, Texas, and its predecessors, Chalk was President of Dabney Capital, Dallas, Texas (1984-86) (real estate finance), General Counsel and Vice President of LaJet, Inc., Abilene, Texas (1978-84) (petroleum refining and marketing), and a partner in Rhodes, Doscher, Chalk, & Heatherly Law Firm, Abilene, Texas (1973-78). His law practice experience includes extensive general corporate, business, and commercial transactions and litigation, oil and gas, eminent domain, post-secondary proprietary education, administrative law, healthcare, real estate, equity and debt financing, alternative dispute resolution, with international oil and gas experience, other international ventures (Europe and Central Asia), and international commercial arbitration.

Location
  • 301 Commerce Street, Suite 3500
    Fort Worth, TX 76102
Languages
  • English
Demographics
  • Gender: Male
  • Ethnicity: White
Education
  • Freed-Hardeman University, AA, graduated 1956
Bar Admissions
  • Texas, 1973
  • District of Columbia, 1957
Affiliations
  • ADR Section of State Bar of Texas - Member and Former Chair
  • American Bar Association - Member
  • Chartered Institute of Arbitrators - Fellow and Chartered Arbitrator
  • College of Commercial Arbitrators - Fellow
  • College of State Bar of Texas - Fellow
  • District of Columbia Bar - Lawyer
  • Mahon Inn of Court - Emeritus Master
  • Tarrant County Bar Association - Former President
  • Texas Academy of Distinguished Neutrals - Member
  • Texas Bar Association - Lawyer
  • Texas Mediator Credentialing Association - Credentialed Distinguished

Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2023 - Arbitration Lawyer of the Year Badge - 2023 - Mediation
Named "Lawyer of the Year" by Best Lawyers® for:
  • Arbitration, Dallas/Fort Worth (2023)
  • Mediation, Dallas/Fort Worth (2023)
Recognized in The Best Lawyers in America® 2024 for work in:
  • Arbitration
  • Mediation
Awards:
  • Blackstone Award by Tarrant County Bar Association
  • Go-To Arbitrator by Texas Lawyer
  • The Best Lawyers in America 2017 in Arbitration
  • Credentialed Distinguished by Texas Mediator Credentialing Association
  • Law Scout Award by Longhorn Council of Boy Scouts of America
Additional Areas of Practice:
  • Commercial Transactions / UCC Law

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